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A questionable perk of life as a professional philosopher is being the occasional recipient of unsolicited monographs by self-published amateurs. Affectionately known as “crazy books”, these volumes crash the mailroom of a Philosophy Department, bearing titles like Ethics of the Astral Plane or The Key to All Ontologies. They promise answers to the deepest, oldest questions: the meaning of life, the universe and everything, unearthed without the help of experts or academic training. Once, when I made light of a recent arrival, a colleague stopped me short. He always felt bad, he said, that we did not have time to read these books. What if somewhere within them were the insights of an untutored genius, lost forever through the impatient cynicism of people like us?
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mit-1721.1/1153462022-09-30T11:08:37Z We are not human Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy A questionable perk of life as a professional philosopher is being the occasional recipient of unsolicited monographs by self-published amateurs. Affectionately known as “crazy books”, these volumes crash the mailroom of a Philosophy Department, bearing titles like Ethics of the Astral Plane or The Key to All Ontologies. They promise answers to the deepest, oldest questions: the meaning of life, the universe and everything, unearthed without the help of experts or academic training. Once, when I made light of a recent arrival, a colleague stopped me short. He always felt bad, he said, that we did not have time to read these books. What if somewhere within them were the insights of an untutored genius, lost forever through the impatient cynicism of people like us? 2018-05-11T19:53:20Z 2018-05-11T19:53:20Z 2017-05 2018-05-11T18:56:35Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0307-661X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115346 Setiya, Kieran. "We are not human." Times Literary Supplement, May 24, 2017, News UK, 2017. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/parfit-we-are-not-human/ Times Literary Supplement Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf News UK MIT Web Domain
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